Imagine recruiting a thousand engineers/technicians for an moon colony, loading them on a fake rocket, landing them in some remote desert, and working them 12 h

Imagine recruiting a thousand engineers/technicians for an moon colony, loading them on a fake rocket, landing them in some remote desert, and working them 12 hours a day to build "a new world" .... They will probably be happy and fulfilled so long as you keep up the illusion.